Wendy Rader-Konofalski has several exciting art events coming up! June 7, 2024 from 5 – 7 pm. Art Reception at the Merrill Gardens Senior Living (14 Main Street, Kirkland, WA) where I am exhibiting two acrylic paintings on canvas and two watercolor landscapes on paper, framed. Besides lots of great
We’re looking for you! Our Polish Festival Seattle is run entirely by volunteers, and we want You! Yes, You! Join our team on Saturday, July 13, 2024, at the Seattle Center. We have a variety of positions available, we especially need volunteers to help with transport in AM and PM.
Long time Polish community member, Cristina Koczarski passed away on February 8, 2024. Her late husband, Roy “Wojtek” Koczarski, died during COVID restrictions in April 2021. There will be a funeral mass for Cristina at the St. Madeleine Sophie Church in Bellevue. Following the mass, there will be the burial ceremony
Come to the Polish Cultural Center to watch the opening soccer game of the Polish national side against Netherlands at the UEFA EURO 2024 tournament! 5:30 am PST is really early and it’s a tough opponent but it’s a Sunday and it will be a great game! The door will
This most beloved and savored event at the Polish Cultural Center is in June this year. The traditional menu includes several kinds of pierogi (meat, potato-and-cheese, sweet cheese, blueberry and sauerkraut w/ mushroom) will be available as well as Polish kielbasa and Polish beers. Takeouts include frozen pierogi, pyzy and
Jan Lisiecki, the Polish Canadian star pianist, is playing Prokofiev at three Benaroya concerts directed by Karen Kamensek The program of each concert includes: Grand Bazaar by Fazil Say Piano Concerto no. 2 by Sergey Prokofiev Symphony no. 1 by William Walton More: concert info and tickets
Seattle Gdynia Sister City Association is looking for host families for the students from Gdynia who will be coming to Seattle to participate in the 2024 Washington Business Week. The students will arrive on July 27/28 and depart on August 11. Between August 4th and 9th they will be full
The movie “Porcelain War” has won the Best Documentary and the Golden Space Needle awards at this year’s Seattle International Film Festival. Sidorska was the principal producer and the creative force behind the movie; she is also a member of the Polish community in Seattle. The film received the US
The Polish Choir “Vivat Musica!” invites everybody to the choir’s 20th anniversary celebrated with a “Biesiada” sing-along. It will be an evening filled with well-known and liked Polish songs, good food & wine, and laugh and cheerful atmosphere. The restaurant will be open for the event, starting at 4 pm.
Update: the movie has won the Best Documentary and the Golden Space Needle awards at SIFF and can compete at the 2025 Oscars. Congratulations! The movie streams at SIFF till May 27. Seattle International Film Festival presents the documentary movie “Porcelain War” co-produced and co-written by the local filmmaker and
Kino OKO invites viewers to a screening of the documentary movie “Spitfire Liberator. The Alex Herbst Story” (92′) at the Polish Cultural Center. The movie directed by Sławomir Ciok and produced by Krzysztof Poraj-Kuczewski is in English and Polish with English subtitles. The movie tells the story of Witold “Alex”
UW Polish Studies Endowment Committee presents the lecture “Women of the People: Serfdom, Female Agency and Film Representation in Poland after 1945” by Dr. Michal Oleszczyk. One of the 2023’s biggest box offices hits in Polish cinemas was the animated adaptation of Władysław Reymont’s Nobel Prize-winning 1904 novel “The Peasants.”
Dom Polski i Szkoła Polska im. ks. Jana Twardowskiego w Bellevue serdecznie zapraszają na monodram „Wisława Szymborska: Poezja i życie” w wykonaniu Agaty Pilitowskiej. Spektakl ten został przygotowany z okazji setnej rocznicy urodzin poetki. Dodatkową atrakcją przedstawienia będą nagrania wideo z udziałem Marii Nowotarskiej. Agata Pilitowska i Maria Nowotarska (córka i
Polish Scouts invite you to the dance party “Two wanted to dance / Dwóm tańczyć się zachciało”. Come to dance the evening away whether single or a young family as the scouts provide babysitting for your children! The program includes: Home-made Polish dinner will be available for purchase from 4
Polish Home Association presents the concert “History of Polish Music” with duo Karolina Mikołajczyk (violin) and Iwo Jedynecki (classical accordion). The program of the concert is as follows 1. A. Jarzębski – Chromatica 2. F. Chopin – Nocturne op. 9 no 2 3. G. Bacewicz – Oberek 4. K. Szymanowski
Celebrate Poland’s and modern Europe’s first constitution, of 1791, with music, dance, theater, and delicious food! Seattle’s Polish Constitution Day assembly will feature a piano recital by acclaimed pianist Mateusz Krzyżowski playing award-winning renditions of the works of Szymanowski, Paderewski, and Chopin. There will also be rousing performances of traditional
Klub książki zaprasza wszystkich zainteresowanych do udziału w dyskusji. Powieść, która wpisała Georgiego Gospodinowa w kanon najciekawszych pisarzy współczesnej Europy, rozpoczyna się najprawdopodobniej w roku 1925. Dwunastoletni chłopiec po raz pierwszy sam trafia na jarmark, trzymając w spoconej dłoni piątaka, który dał mu ojciec. Wszystkie pieniądze oddaje przy wejściu do
Seattle’s latest and most exciting word in chamber music is the extraordinary wind ensemble Viridian Winds, who will be presenting a night of “Musica Polonia”. The melodies of a flute, an oboe, a clarinet, a horn, a bassoon, and a piano will seamlessly intertwine in the stylings of Chopin, Bacewicz,
Quiver Distribution and Fathom Events present the movie “Irena’s Vow / Przysięga Ireny” directed by Louise Archambault. This Canadian-Polish WWII drama tells the story of Irena Gut Opdyke who risked everything to save the lives of thirteen Jews — including one unborn — during the Nazi atrocities against Poland. If
Klub książki zaprasza wszystkich zainteresowanych do udziału w dyskusji. Niniejsza powieść to debiut prozatorski Czechowicza z 1923 roku. Opublikował ją na łamach lubelskiego „Reflektora”. „Opowieść o papierowej koronie”, to dzieło, którego jednym z tematów jest niespełniona miłość. Młody Czechowicz stworzył niezwykle ciekawy utwór, którego głównym bohaterem jest Henryk, homoseksualista, zawiedziony